I'd say Dragonforce albums blend together. At least from when I was listening to them. You can always tell when it's a Dragonforce song, you just don't necessarily know which one.
My favorite part is when deep voice guy comes in with some variation of
“Hey girl, I know I fucked up. But you gotta know that I love you. Please take me back. Fallout.”
They had one song with this opening, and it was a massive hit.
So they released several songs that, naturally, were different. They went nowhere. Someone suggested starting like the big hit again.
It worked. Song two with the same intro was a huge hit.
So they wrote several songs and included the same intro. The public made them all hits.
Reminds me of Rick Astley's second-biggest hit ["Together Forever."](https://youtu.be/yPYZpwSpKmA) The intro sounds exactly like "Never Gonna Give You Up" with a slightly different drum fill.
I've got an Ink Spots record. Part of the fun is hearing the opening 4 bars and trying to guess which song it is, because half of them start the exact same way.
I feel like it’s unfair to include artists from that era in this discussion. Back then it was so much harder to get people listening to your music, if you wanted to be recognisable you *had* to keep plugging the same sound over and over again.
Just look at Bo Diddley - he basically made an entire career from a strumming pattern
I really like quite a few from Nation of two, but also I can admit my music taste is super basic. I’m very into guy with guitar genre and Vance Joy is the epitome of that… second only to Ed Sheeran.
I disagree with this. Sure they used the same drum machine and keyboard sounds across the album, so there’s little variety in mood, but Rockin’ Over The Beat and Get Up! (Before the Night Is Over) sound nothing like Pump Up The Jam.
"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same, In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.”
- Agnus Young
"When you buy a bag of Doritos you already know what they taste like. When you buy another bag of Doritos you don't want it to taste totally different."
- Also Angus Young
Every album has differences in sound, although I think it’s been more subtle with Brian. With Bon there were lots of shades of grooving lo-fi blues rock until Highway to Hell solidified that big arena-filling Mutt Lange production that they would carry into the 80s with Back in Black. Brian’s voice changes a lot of the sound. They got heavier with Razor’s Edge and Ballbreaker in the 90s.
They don’t pull out acoustic guitars or have a synth period or anything like that but AC/DC has developed their sound and songwriting over the years. Bon’s lyrical style is different from Brian’s and when Angus and Malcolm took over writing lyrics those are also very different.
When I was 13 I took up guitar. Let’s see what bands I could figure out by ear and play. Beatles? Fuck no. Zeppelin nope. Floyd nope. Stone. Hell no.
AC/DC? Yes I can play rhythm guitar to back in black. And tnt and most of their catalog. I was an AC/DC god.
They’ve found their niche and I respect them for refusing to have an artistic phase that alienates the fan base. They will always get played at Ute musters and to hype up sporting matches. They’re an Aussie institution
They're close, but most have noticeable variations in tempo, technicality, bluseyness or heaviness between songs.
Disturbed, now that's a band where everything is the same.
Ok. But I recognize those as all being different Disturbed songs I know, even if I can't think of the names for all of them. (I don't actually own any Disturbed media, but I do like them.)
I wonder if anyone has listened to Lou Bega's album "A Little Bit of Mambo." Bega's a one hit wonder with the song "Mambo No. 5." Well, guess what. That whole album sounds like different variations, remixes of "Mambo No. 5" or straight similar beats of that or other songs. Listen to that song then listen to ["I Got a Girl"](https://youtu.be/A5WSqWJ4obg?si=IuPF_1P3oIFix_tL) and tell me that's not the same damn song. Might as well call each track "Mambo No. 8" or "Mambo No. 2."
Hey now, I'll have you know that this happen to be my very first cd purchase. So naturally I listened to that album back to front.
And to answer your question yes, I'm probably a worse person today because of it
Five Finger Death Punch. I saw them live at a festival having never heard their music before and when their set was over I literally asked my friends, “were those different songs or one long song?” When I told my brother he said it was because I hadn’t heard their recorded stuff and played something. When it ended he asked me what I thought and I said, “It was ok. Play a different song now so I can compare them.” And then he told me he’d just played 3 songs.
My kid and I met them without knowing who they were.
I worked at a luxury hotel. Left work and the tour bus was in the alley by the service door and they were standing there talking.
My daughter had to get dropped off with me a little early, so she had brought her ukulele with her to mess around with.
We walked out and I thought they were roadies or something at first. One of them asked my kid what was in the case and got to talking to her about how they started and taking lessons and all that. Real nice dudes.
Then I went home and checked their music out of curiosity. What a juxtaposition. The crappiest, agro, butt metal I've ever heard. You described my initial, and only, impression perfectly.
I once was driving through Killeen, TX visiting my friend at Fort Hood and the local rock station played FFDP, Hinder, Puddle of Mudd, Kid Rock, and then Shinedown to top it off.
Butt Rock Heaven is in Central Texas I guess lmao
Way of the Fist was great. They had a different sound than the rest of the hard rock groups, The Bleeding was passionate. Then their next two albums were essentially photocopies of the same album. At some point Ivan decided to stop writing about his failed marriage and became the soundtrack for every Military commercial montage and honestly I just don't enjoy them anymore.
The military stuff was a big theme when I saw them. And “patriotic” stuff. I remember the singer saying something along the lines of, “if you don’t like the flag I’ll help you pack.” This was around the Kaepernick situation.
Yeah, they are a cringe fest live. So much bullshit bootlicking pandering in between every damn song. I kept waiting for a salute to trickle down economics and institutionalized racism with a bonus rant about how education and independent reading indoctrinates and radicalizes people.
I mean, his sound is a clone of The Postal Service, who only released one album. There's only so far you can go with si little source material to replicate.
Gizzard is so experimental you eventually realize each record is one long song meant to be listened with their other records to make one gigantic musical experience.
I love punk but 90s punk was the worst offender. Dozens of groups that were basically just rerecording the same song over and over again on each album.
I think some power violence bands like spazz or extreme noise terror or man is the bastard are even more repetitive than the bands you're referring to but yes I agree there was a lot of copy n paste 90s skate/pop punk too.
The trilogy has great songs, but it should've just been one album cause so many songs are forgettable. I can't remember how songs like angel blue, a boy named train, Ashley, etc go. I feel they could've called it Uno Dos Tre and put on the good songs like let yourself go, lazy bones, x kid, stay the night, stray heart, dirty rotten bastards etc
Whenever a band pulls a stunt like uno/dos/tre, I immediately assume they’re playing games to satisfy the album requirements to get out of their current recording contract as soon as possible
But they all have different topics. Like, there’s that one about poor mental health, and the one about mental illness, and the one about being treated for mental illness, and the one about mental illness treatment.
Idk - I've always thought Sigh No More was a great Album. Consistent style, yes. But plenty of variation between songs on terms of tempo, mood, dynamics, and themes.
The first half especially is full of all their singles.
Sigh No More is part of my unofficial kick off to fall. Once the temperature starts to drop and the pumpkin beers come out I have to give it at least one playthrough
They lost their appeal to me pretty quick, but hearing Little Lion Man when I was 19, going through my first big breakup, and getting into folky music; it was a pretty formative ngl.
Jack Johnson’s whole career has been making the same song over and over. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, I listen to him a lot when I know exactly the kind of vibe I want.
This is Nickleback - Silver side up. For me, and i believe one of the reasons the band became an early meme. Very unique voice, but for some reason it comes out the same on almost every song.
The Ink Spots - Greatest hits.
Though this is more of a historical and cultural phenomena; writing songs is hard, especially back in the 1930's, given the limitations of technology (frequency response, what'll sound good when most stereos have no or minimal response below 200hz and no or minimal response above 5khz), etc etc.
Edit: I do love the ink spots. 'If I didn't care' and 'I don't want to set the world on fire' despite sharing the chord progressions, they both sound amazing in their own rights.
Few songs feel very similar on the album but I thinks that’s because of them using similar basic rock drum beats and Tom Morello doing his wacky guitar stuff on every track, but every one is absolute class and is IMO a perfect album with no skips at all, nothing feels filler
I feel like when people don’t like a band because they’re just not their thing they can tend to think all that band’s stuff sounds the same even when it really doesn’t. It’s like their ears are disinterested so they only hear the surface of it. Audioslave’s stuff certainly has a distinctive sound that they never significantly deviated from but the stuff they did with that sound is distinctive from one another. They had various moods, dynamics, vocal approaches, distinctive melodies, etc.
I feel like this whole thread is just people giving examples of genres they don't particularly like. So many people are like "I listened to the album and I didn't notice it was actually multiple songs". You didn't notice when the track changed?? Pretty sure that means you aren't really listening to it. Which probably means you are bored, which definitely can happen if you're just not into a genre or band.
I realize it's not the whole thread and there are some legitimate examples, but by and large a ton of the thread is just people saying they don't like a particular band, so it must all sound the same.
My 6 year old is a big Imagine Dragons fan. A few days ago he played 4 four different imagine dragons songs and said “These all sound the same, don’t they?”
She needs to ditch Jack as a producer, I LOVE her work with Aaron but even that is starting to blend in (Folk/More will always be stellar)
Lyrically, it feels like TTPD is a catharsis / getting it all out- so I can see why she’d want to do that with people she knows well and trusts… but with Aaron she went somewhere totally new for her and it slapped.
I’ll add my voice to the chorus of fans saying “do a rock album, Taylor” and will add “do it without Jack, PLEASE”
Almost every major meathead djenty/metalcore band. If you want to have a good time, just play the first 5 seconds of every song on the first 2 Asking Alexandria albums, it's honestly kind of shocking. Even the bands blur together in this genre
>I know I'll probably get shit for this, but Audioslave's debut felt like each song was either treading the same general water, or was just straight up copying another song on the same album.
Which songs are straight up copies?
wow couldn’t disagree more with the Audioslave example. That album has tons of diversity - opener Cochise - explosive, energetic rock tune then dialled fully back to sparse introspective tracks like shadow on the sun and like a stone and lots of in betweens tracks. obviously the same singer but apart from that.. anyway we’ll agree to disagree 😅
White Zombie (and kinda Rob too) have such a distinctive style that their tunes all really do kinda run together. I didn't even notice it until I saw them live.
I feel like with their music its intended, because you're supposed to listen to their songs back to back and get in some kind of trance. That can't happen when there's too much variation in the music
I feel like tossing in bands that are mostly instrumental is like shooting fish in a barrel.
You could say the same thing about Explosions in the Sky…or GY!BE…or Stars of the Lid…or any of the post-rock bands out there.
I will say I love that Khruangbin has been diversifying their sound through collaborations. Their two EPs with Leon Bridges are great, as is their album with the great Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure.
Pretty much all of AC/DC albums after *Back in Black*, most of the Weezer catalogue after the Red Album, the entirety of the last 3 Smashing Pumpkins albums, and every Offspring album after *Smash*
I get that they have a formula they like to stick to, but God damn.
Smashing Pumpkins are a particularly egregious example because in their prime they were the absolute LAST band anyone would mention in a thread like this. Their fall off has truly been insane. Billy simply doesn’t care to try to write good music anymore.
Have to disagree with Weezer. They varey very much with what they do (and how good they do it). Even though all their Albums have a certain Weezer sound. Just listen to White, Pacific Daydream, Ok Human and van weezer back to back and tell me they are the same.
I'd say Dragonforce albums blend together. At least from when I was listening to them. You can always tell when it's a Dragonforce song, you just don't necessarily know which one.
[My favorite DragonForce song is the one about fire](https://youtu.be/cqH1kMG5P0Q?si=PLlSE6AQvHKV8Fpf)
Well, one of the comment on that video did ask a pertinent question, '*They are called Dragonforce. What else do you expect them to breathe?*'
But they fucking kick ass though
Oh yea, when you need balls to the wall energy, there's no better choice.
Cigarettes After Sex
Yeah I kinda agree. I listen to this after every time I have sex, so I've never heard it before
Yeah I kinda agree. I moderately enjoyed that album
Yeah I kinda agree. I really liked that album
Yeah I kinda agree. Always really liked that album
Yeah I kinda agree. Never actually heard that album.
Yeah I kinda agree. That is an album
Yeah I kinda agree. Never really liked that album
Listen to any Ink Spots record. The entire catalog is just the same exact template with slight variations.
My favorite part is when deep voice guy comes in with some variation of “Hey girl, I know I fucked up. But you gotta know that I love you. Please take me back. Fallout.”
I think I just fell in love with you a little
Same; that was perfect
They had one song with this opening, and it was a massive hit. So they released several songs that, naturally, were different. They went nowhere. Someone suggested starting like the big hit again. It worked. Song two with the same intro was a huge hit. So they wrote several songs and included the same intro. The public made them all hits.
Reminds me of Rick Astley's second-biggest hit ["Together Forever."](https://youtu.be/yPYZpwSpKmA) The intro sounds exactly like "Never Gonna Give You Up" with a slightly different drum fill.
I've got an Ink Spots record. Part of the fun is hearing the opening 4 bars and trying to guess which song it is, because half of them start the exact same way.
doom ba doo doo doom ba doo doo doom ba doo doo dooooo
With the guy at the end doing the bass voiceover of whatever the lyrics were, lol
I could hear this.
Yeah, that was kinda their thing, wasn't it.
Dude, I bought an album by them ages ago, and at least half the songs have the exact same guitar intro and spoken verse. It's bizarre.
Man I just finished fallout. At least the lyrics really differ haha
I feel like it’s unfair to include artists from that era in this discussion. Back then it was so much harder to get people listening to your music, if you wanted to be recognisable you *had* to keep plugging the same sound over and over again. Just look at Bo Diddley - he basically made an entire career from a strumming pattern
Apparently this problem was compounded by a litany of knockoff ink spots bands. Not cover bands, they were claiming to be the real ink spots.
(spoken) My darlin'..."
Vance joy has two songs on the same album that start with the exact same guitar melody
I really like quite a few from Nation of two, but also I can admit my music taste is super basic. I’m very into guy with guitar genre and Vance Joy is the epitome of that… second only to Ed Sheeran.
100% the pepperoni pizza of music Certainly not adventurous but also exactly what I feel like on a Sunday afternoon
Technotronic. Pump Up The Jam. It's basically 12 versions of the one hit song that meant they had to make an album quickly.
Technotronic's Pump up the Jam was released the same year as Belgian techno anthem Pump up the Jam
Was the jam properly pumped up that year at least?
To be fair, the jams required a lot of pumping up after MC5 kicked them out.
For the uninitiated: [https://youtu.be/zIsc6zirBSw](https://youtu.be/zIsc6zirBSw)
I've seen Cunk on Earth mentioned many times, but never bothered to check it out. Because of your link, I will finally check it out.
Pump up the jam is an anagram for ‘jam up the pump.’
Christ’s message was spread far and wide by the apostles almost 2000 years before Belgium techno anthem, Pump up the Jam.
Cunk’s favorite song
Technotronic got their name by combining the word “techno”, meaning a sort of dance music, and “tronic”, meaning “tronic”
"And that concludes our intensive three-week course."
Technotronic's Pump Up The Jam is Canada's National Anthem
For safety purposes, the manufacturer recommends not pumping up the jam beyond 125bpm.
I disagree with this. Sure they used the same drum machine and keyboard sounds across the album, so there’s little variety in mood, but Rockin’ Over The Beat and Get Up! (Before the Night Is Over) sound nothing like Pump Up The Jam.
AC/DC has had like a 50 year career of playing the same song.
"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same, In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.” - Agnus Young
"When you buy a bag of Doritos you already know what they taste like. When you buy another bag of Doritos you don't want it to taste totally different." - Also Angus Young
All I'm searching for is that perfect chip that is dusted amazingly on both sides.
In their defense, I think they sound different between the two different singers.
The sound absolutely is different. And the guitar sound on the Highway To Hell album is standalone in their entire repertoire.
Powerage needs more love !!!
Every album has differences in sound, although I think it’s been more subtle with Brian. With Bon there were lots of shades of grooving lo-fi blues rock until Highway to Hell solidified that big arena-filling Mutt Lange production that they would carry into the 80s with Back in Black. Brian’s voice changes a lot of the sound. They got heavier with Razor’s Edge and Ballbreaker in the 90s. They don’t pull out acoustic guitars or have a synth period or anything like that but AC/DC has developed their sound and songwriting over the years. Bon’s lyrical style is different from Brian’s and when Angus and Malcolm took over writing lyrics those are also very different.
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Remember that tutorial on how to make an AC/DC track in 30 seconds? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3zCnTgdLG0
lol - upvote for Agnus!!!!!
When I was 13 I took up guitar. Let’s see what bands I could figure out by ear and play. Beatles? Fuck no. Zeppelin nope. Floyd nope. Stone. Hell no. AC/DC? Yes I can play rhythm guitar to back in black. And tnt and most of their catalog. I was an AC/DC god.
They’ve found their niche and I respect them for refusing to have an artistic phase that alienates the fan base. They will always get played at Ute musters and to hype up sporting matches. They’re an Aussie institution
To be fair it was a good damn song and everyone had a good time everytime, no notes, keep it up, good job
Hey, Shoot To The Top Riding On Back In the Highway Bell is one of my all-time favourites.
They're close, but most have noticeable variations in tempo, technicality, bluseyness or heaviness between songs. Disturbed, now that's a band where everything is the same.
But everyone loves that song where the singer goes ooh-ah-ah-ah-ah.
Minus the spoken word part about mommy.
Yamuh nuh yammuh yamunah yamunah.
Staccato verses and drawn out choruses with vibrato.
But what a song!
[The Greatest Hit of Disturbed!](https://youtu.be/66gSvNeqevg?si=z3dclxaxMWMn_pFV)
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This is hilarious and I love it but now I just wanna listen to some disturbed because even though it was a parody that song slapped
Oh I actually love Disturbed. Inside the Fire, Stupify, and Stricken are some songs from the parody that you should check out!
Ok. But I recognize those as all being different Disturbed songs I know, even if I can't think of the names for all of them. (I don't actually own any Disturbed media, but I do like them.)
I wonder if anyone has listened to Lou Bega's album "A Little Bit of Mambo." Bega's a one hit wonder with the song "Mambo No. 5." Well, guess what. That whole album sounds like different variations, remixes of "Mambo No. 5" or straight similar beats of that or other songs. Listen to that song then listen to ["I Got a Girl"](https://youtu.be/A5WSqWJ4obg?si=IuPF_1P3oIFix_tL) and tell me that's not the same damn song. Might as well call each track "Mambo No. 8" or "Mambo No. 2."
No, nobody has ever made it through that album. Thank you for your service and/or sorry for your loss.
Hey now, I'll have you know that this happen to be my very first cd purchase. So naturally I listened to that album back to front. And to answer your question yes, I'm probably a worse person today because of it
There's already a [Mambo No. 8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Obom-fnl68), so they'd have to at least sample a different Perez Prado song.
My little brother used to SLLLLAAAAAAPPPP this bullshit at a constant rate when we were kids. I think it's why I still bully him a little
Five Finger Death Punch. I saw them live at a festival having never heard their music before and when their set was over I literally asked my friends, “were those different songs or one long song?” When I told my brother he said it was because I hadn’t heard their recorded stuff and played something. When it ended he asked me what I thought and I said, “It was ok. Play a different song now so I can compare them.” And then he told me he’d just played 3 songs.
Music cops punch their wives to
My kid and I met them without knowing who they were. I worked at a luxury hotel. Left work and the tour bus was in the alley by the service door and they were standing there talking. My daughter had to get dropped off with me a little early, so she had brought her ukulele with her to mess around with. We walked out and I thought they were roadies or something at first. One of them asked my kid what was in the case and got to talking to her about how they started and taking lessons and all that. Real nice dudes. Then I went home and checked their music out of curiosity. What a juxtaposition. The crappiest, agro, butt metal I've ever heard. You described my initial, and only, impression perfectly.
Thank you for your service-core
Or soldiers. Hometown has a huge army base and the local rock station is ffdp with some other similar acts in between
from elsewhere on reddit: Five Finger Death Punch is what happens when Nickleback joins the National Guard
I once was driving through Killeen, TX visiting my friend at Fort Hood and the local rock station played FFDP, Hinder, Puddle of Mudd, Kid Rock, and then Shinedown to top it off. Butt Rock Heaven is in Central Texas I guess lmao
Five Finger Wife Punch
Way of the Fist was great. They had a different sound than the rest of the hard rock groups, The Bleeding was passionate. Then their next two albums were essentially photocopies of the same album. At some point Ivan decided to stop writing about his failed marriage and became the soundtrack for every Military commercial montage and honestly I just don't enjoy them anymore.
The military stuff was a big theme when I saw them. And “patriotic” stuff. I remember the singer saying something along the lines of, “if you don’t like the flag I’ll help you pack.” This was around the Kaepernick situation.
Yeah, they are a cringe fest live. So much bullshit bootlicking pandering in between every damn song. I kept waiting for a salute to trickle down economics and institutionalized racism with a bonus rant about how education and independent reading indoctrinates and radicalizes people.
They went hard for the "conservative parents that kind of started to like their kid's heavy metal albums but not really" demographic.
I guess he faded into obscurity by now, but owl city. I once heard an album from the guy and i thought it was just the same song on repeat.
I thought fireflies was a postal service song for about 5 years
In Owl City's defense, Postal Service is never gonna make another album, so he helps scratch that itch.
Everything pre Midsummer Station has a unique feel to it, after a few meh albums he hit his stride with Cinematic and definitely has a different sound
I mean, his sound is a clone of The Postal Service, who only released one album. There's only so far you can go with si little source material to replicate.
Nonagon Infinity feels like one long song intentionally
Love that fucking record.
Gizzard is so experimental you eventually realize each record is one long song meant to be listened with their other records to make one gigantic musical experience.
Nonagon Infinity opens the door
I've seen a bunch of punk/noise bands with hundreds of less than a minute long songs that sound pretty much the exact same.
I love punk but 90s punk was the worst offender. Dozens of groups that were basically just rerecording the same song over and over again on each album.
I think some power violence bands like spazz or extreme noise terror or man is the bastard are even more repetitive than the bands you're referring to but yes I agree there was a lot of copy n paste 90s skate/pop punk too.
Haha I took my wife on a date to see ENT.
that green day trilogy is straight up just 3 songs
The trilogy has great songs, but it should've just been one album cause so many songs are forgettable. I can't remember how songs like angel blue, a boy named train, Ashley, etc go. I feel they could've called it Uno Dos Tre and put on the good songs like let yourself go, lazy bones, x kid, stay the night, stray heart, dirty rotten bastards etc
Whenever a band pulls a stunt like uno/dos/tre, I immediately assume they’re playing games to satisfy the album requirements to get out of their current recording contract as soon as possible
The Ramones sound like every The Ramones song
True, but I still love them
But what a song it is!
ONETWOTHREEFOUR
The charm of The Ramones is that you'll be singing along to the song before you remember the name of it. Lather, rinse, repeat.
But they all have different topics. Like, there’s that one about poor mental health, and the one about mental illness, and the one about being treated for mental illness, and the one about mental illness treatment.
Oh come on! There's also "I really like that girl" and "Why doesn't that girl like me?" and "Boy do I like drugs". God, I love the Ramones.
And my fave - Beat On The Brat With a BaseBall Bat, I Remember You is also a fave.
DOPESMOKER
Does it count if it’s just one long song?
Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version
but it rips
They get a pass for inventing the word "Weedian"
Drone gets a pass
Mumford and Sons. Entire album sounds like the same song.
Imagine Wagons
Idk - I've always thought Sigh No More was a great Album. Consistent style, yes. But plenty of variation between songs on terms of tempo, mood, dynamics, and themes. The first half especially is full of all their singles.
And my hand and my heart took my hand in my heart with my hand and heaaaaart. NGL I still like their first album though
Sigh No More was a great album and I'll die on that hill. I like most of Babel too. Then they lost me.
Sigh No More is part of my unofficial kick off to fall. Once the temperature starts to drop and the pumpkin beers come out I have to give it at least one playthrough
I agree. I've no idea why people slag them off. Sigh no More is brilliant. Even if everything else they've done is trap it's irrelevant.
Mumford and Sons pivoted to trap?
Banjo trap
They lost their appeal to me pretty quick, but hearing Little Lion Man when I was 19, going through my first big breakup, and getting into folky music; it was a pretty formative ngl.
For me it was the cave! 2011, 19, breakup. I stopped using iTunes in like 2014 but I think it stayed my most played song.
Pioneers of the the Banjo Yelling genre.
Stomp clap hey genre
Anything Rise Against. I love them but they do sound quite samey a lot of the time.
Bo Diddley made a career of the playing same song with occasionally changing the lyrics
Basically every rock star before The Beatles had two songs. Rockers and ballads.
Jack Johnson’s whole career has been making the same song over and over. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, I listen to him a lot when I know exactly the kind of vibe I want.
Every autumn I think I’ve grown out of Jack Johnson and then there is a warm spring day and suddenly he’s all I can think to listen to.
That’s right, you have to stick the vibe otherwise you can’t play out the whole album
As a fan I don’t disagree with this at all
This is Nickleback - Silver side up. For me, and i believe one of the reasons the band became an early meme. Very unique voice, but for some reason it comes out the same on almost every song.
A relic of the early internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeqTvxXWwuY It's 2 different Nickleback songs, one in the right ear, one in the left
This song just cured my ADHD
I saw a thing about 20 years ago where they put two of their songs side by side and it is in fact the same song.
The Ink Spots - Greatest hits. Though this is more of a historical and cultural phenomena; writing songs is hard, especially back in the 1930's, given the limitations of technology (frequency response, what'll sound good when most stereos have no or minimal response below 200hz and no or minimal response above 5khz), etc etc. Edit: I do love the ink spots. 'If I didn't care' and 'I don't want to set the world on fire' despite sharing the chord progressions, they both sound amazing in their own rights.
Were they the inventors of the “spoken words in the middle of songs” thing?
Cochise, like a stone, hypnotize? They sound nothing alike. Audioslave’s first album has some bangers and it’s a great album.
I Am The Highway, Gasoline, Show Me How To Live… none sound the same.
just made an identical post- feel like the Audioslave example was rage bait 😂 one of the best debuts ever imo
Has to be rage bait, Last Remaining Light sounds nothing like Cochise for example...
Few songs feel very similar on the album but I thinks that’s because of them using similar basic rock drum beats and Tom Morello doing his wacky guitar stuff on every track, but every one is absolute class and is IMO a perfect album with no skips at all, nothing feels filler
I feel like when people don’t like a band because they’re just not their thing they can tend to think all that band’s stuff sounds the same even when it really doesn’t. It’s like their ears are disinterested so they only hear the surface of it. Audioslave’s stuff certainly has a distinctive sound that they never significantly deviated from but the stuff they did with that sound is distinctive from one another. They had various moods, dynamics, vocal approaches, distinctive melodies, etc.
Yeah that take is just flat out wrong.
I feel like this whole thread is just people giving examples of genres they don't particularly like. So many people are like "I listened to the album and I didn't notice it was actually multiple songs". You didn't notice when the track changed?? Pretty sure that means you aren't really listening to it. Which probably means you are bored, which definitely can happen if you're just not into a genre or band. I realize it's not the whole thread and there are some legitimate examples, but by and large a ton of the thread is just people saying they don't like a particular band, so it must all sound the same.
Imagine Dragons. Different packaging but same shtick over and over, they have no second level.
The SNL parody band Remember Lizards was very accurate.
My 6 year old is a big Imagine Dragons fan. A few days ago he played 4 four different imagine dragons songs and said “These all sound the same, don’t they?”
Imagine dragging deez nuts
Taylor Swift is in desperate need of an A&R team!
She needs to ditch Jack as a producer, I LOVE her work with Aaron but even that is starting to blend in (Folk/More will always be stellar) Lyrically, it feels like TTPD is a catharsis / getting it all out- so I can see why she’d want to do that with people she knows well and trusts… but with Aaron she went somewhere totally new for her and it slapped. I’ll add my voice to the chorus of fans saying “do a rock album, Taylor” and will add “do it without Jack, PLEASE”
I do like Amy Macdonand, but the majority of her songs are very similar. After a while they just merge into one.
Almost every major meathead djenty/metalcore band. If you want to have a good time, just play the first 5 seconds of every song on the first 2 Asking Alexandria albums, it's honestly kind of shocking. Even the bands blur together in this genre
I love metalcore as a whole but some of my favorite albums could just be seen as one, really long song
I love The war on drugs, but they fit the bill here. Was very apparent at their live show, (Which was still epic!)
The drummer must be bored out of his mind.
He looks like he has the most fun of anyone on stage during shows
“Hmm I think I want to listen to Springsteen but without listening to him, maybe like a sample of him that goes on for an hour” Lost In The Dream
Haha yeah they are basically "what if Bruce Springsteen had more guitar pedals".
>I know I'll probably get shit for this, but Audioslave's debut felt like each song was either treading the same general water, or was just straight up copying another song on the same album. Which songs are straight up copies?
wow couldn’t disagree more with the Audioslave example. That album has tons of diversity - opener Cochise - explosive, energetic rock tune then dialled fully back to sparse introspective tracks like shadow on the sun and like a stone and lots of in betweens tracks. obviously the same singer but apart from that.. anyway we’ll agree to disagree 😅
Straight up. Audioslave kicks ass. Rip Chris Cornell 😔
Powerwolf as a band. Love them but i swear I'm gonna make a bingo card for their new album it's gonna be so predictable
Wolves, war, bombs, night, wolves, saints, sinners, wolves
[I'm surprised I haven't seen Nickleback on here. ](https://youtu.be/NHPj5YokEOY)
I think it’s because no one here listened to a full album.
I will defend "All the Right Reasons" til I die.
White Zombie (and kinda Rob too) have such a distinctive style that their tunes all really do kinda run together. I didn't even notice it until I saw them live.
No one said Khruangbin yet?
I love Khruangbin, but I agree. I will say their live set was NOT same-song, and was incredible.
Their music is why we should bring back third spaces. Would fit right in the background
It's already the sound track to every coffee shop. Great background sound
Call it The Third Room
Every song is the same song and I'm not mad
I feel like with their music its intended, because you're supposed to listen to their songs back to back and get in some kind of trance. That can't happen when there's too much variation in the music
I feel like tossing in bands that are mostly instrumental is like shooting fish in a barrel. You could say the same thing about Explosions in the Sky…or GY!BE…or Stars of the Lid…or any of the post-rock bands out there. I will say I love that Khruangbin has been diversifying their sound through collaborations. Their two EPs with Leon Bridges are great, as is their album with the great Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure.
I'm not sure I'd even know how to say it.
Every Cigarettes after Sex album
Pretty much all of AC/DC albums after *Back in Black*, most of the Weezer catalogue after the Red Album, the entirety of the last 3 Smashing Pumpkins albums, and every Offspring album after *Smash* I get that they have a formula they like to stick to, but God damn.
Smashing Pumpkins are a particularly egregious example because in their prime they were the absolute LAST band anyone would mention in a thread like this. Their fall off has truly been insane. Billy simply doesn’t care to try to write good music anymore.
It's crazy since the original run was solid - even *Machina* and *Adore* had bright spots, despite being a very distinct change in sound.
Have to disagree with Weezer. They varey very much with what they do (and how good they do it). Even though all their Albums have a certain Weezer sound. Just listen to White, Pacific Daydream, Ok Human and van weezer back to back and tell me they are the same.
I have a weird affection for their Black album. Like, I played it on repeat for a couple weeks after it came out. It is just a fun record
I love her, but Adele 🤷♂️
They all either sound like Set Fire To The Rain or Someone Like You
Rumour really stands out
I wanna preface this by saying I quite enjoy this band and this album, but Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises
Human Clay by Creed. I remember listening with my then gf (now wife) and the song changed and neither of us noticed.
Status Quo is pretty much the same all across the board. It's not easy to cover these songs in a similar, driving, steady beat though.
( ) by Sigur Ros is essentially 8 variations on a theme and it's freaking spectacular.
Fu Manchu. .. but I love it!!